Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose. -Immanuel Kant

Things hard to come by are much esteemed. -Latin Proverb

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ingrates. -Stanislaus Leszcynski

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little. -Stanislaus Leszcynski

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is the final test of a gentleman; his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. -William Lyon Phelps

We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire. -Francois de la Rochefoucauld

When one has never heard a man’s name in the course of one’s life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. -Oscar Wilde

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. -Rebecca West

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Now,as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness. -Thomas Mann

We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly intolerant attitude we hesitate not a minute to secure an organized minority, or even a majority, to attempt by resolution or law to impose our will on a large body of people in matters where no moral wrong is involved and where liberty is curtailed. -John J. Raskob

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